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Muscle tissue is a contractile tissue made up of actin and myosin fibers[GO].

Vertebrate muscle is categorized into three major muscle types defined by their structural and functional properties: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. In Dmel the counterparts are somatic, heart/cardiac and visceral. Here we take a cell type based approach.

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muscular tissue
portion of muscle tissue
textus muscularis
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uberon

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neural tissueuberon

UBPROP_0000001

One of the four types of tissue in traditional classifications. Tissue that contains cells with contractile filaments that move past each other and change the size of the cell. Muscle tissue also is separated into three distinct categories.[AAO]

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